How to drag and drop stories if board is sorted by priority?

Leeland_ad5rsw

We'd like to have our projects auto-sort based on priority. So we have a filter that ends with "ORDER BY priority DESC".

When we use priority sorting we lose RANKing so send to top/bottom don't work. This is expected and okay.

However, we also cannot drag stories to/from the backlog and sprints. We cannot assign stories to epics by drag and drop and I cannot find a keyboard shortcut or a simple way to move stories around without individually editing or dealing with all the error messages about rank not being enabled and then massive group edits.

Why remove the send to sprint/backlog right-click just because ranking is disabled?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Without the (or even a) ranking field being used as the sort order, Jira has no way to know how to order your issues. 

Consider a backlog ordered by priority:

1. ABC-nnn - high priority
2. ABC-nnn - high priority
3. ABC-nnn - high priority
4. ABC-nnn - high priority
5. ABC-nnn - high priority
6. ABC-nnn - medium priority
7. ABC-nnn - medium priority
8. ABC-nnn - low priority
9. ABC-nnn - low priority
10. ABC-nnn - low prioriy

No problem with your sprint boundary, let's keep it simple and assume you take the top 4 items into it. 

Now imagine you decide to drag item 9 into the sprint.  Obviously, the priority on that needs to change to "high", but where?  As all 5 items have the same priority, there's no "right" place to put it.

Now imagine trying to mix this up with different priorities.  Put simply, you can not actually order issues without unique placements.  In my example, I've shown three priorities.  Mathematically, that means you can't order more than three issues in your backlog. 

You do have a good point at the end - it is bit of a cop-out to lose "send to sprint", you could just silently rank the issue at the top or bottom of the sprint and amend the field you're using as the order, but that would look odd, as you'd need to ignore the sort-order on not-rank to do it.